Let’s take Jose Mourinho at face value for a minute. Never the wisest option but let’s give it a go.
In a recent interview in the Telegraph he stated that ” there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.”
This would probably go in the face of what most people believe is Jose’s shifting sands approach to diving, bad tackles, refereeing decisions, other manager’s etc, etc and so on.
Basically, if it happens to Chelsea he’s against it. If it happens for Chelsea then he’s in favour of it. Fair enough. Just don’t waste our time with all this ‘I’m never a hypocrite” nonsense.
Jose was out there not being a hypocrite once again on Saturday. In fact he was railing against the hypocrisy of a system which continually penalises Chelsea while giving others, specifically Manchester United, an easy ride
In particular he was upset with Ander Herrera for attempting to win a penalty from Gary Cahill late on at Stamford Bridge.
Herrera was booked for his ‘dive’ bit it seems that’s not enough.
“I am happy that it was not a Chelsea player,” Jose said. “If it was a Chelsea player, on Sky it would be somebody’s ‘crimes’, it would be ‘cheating’, it would be ‘the champions of the team without fair play’ and these kind of things. Because it’s a Man United player tomorrow nobody remembers.”
Until he makes a big issue of it that is. Then it drags on and on and on…
